So, with all the hype surrounding easter and the prolific appearances of all the fuzzy little pagan-inspired mascots of fertility and fancified eggs, I figured I’d show you the dark side of some of these cute little critters, Thursday Thirteen style. What an eye-opener. I knew there was a reason we don’t have Easter baskets in our house, and this just confirms my fears. Enjoy my oddball sense of humor and don’t buy into the ‘holiday’, Jesus wants our service everyday and has set aside a special remembrance, every first day of the week, in the communion that He Himself instituted. Let’s give Him the service and remembrance He has asked for and leave the hype behind. Here’s the rather disturbing photo evidence of furry-creature mishaps at the highest levels –>
The title of this article is a quote from William Congreve who also wrote the following:
Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d
Obviously this is a man of great wisdom. Indeed the time comes when many of us make the choice to cleave from those who have nurtured us and kept us safe in order to join ourselves to another (Gen. 2:24) in that ancient institution… dare I say, made in Heaven? Of course marriage is made in Heaven, yet so, the saying goes, are thunder and lightning. We can see this even in that couple so hopelessly made one that she was literally formed from his own flesh (Gen. 2:22). Yet even in this Eden of a marriage came temptation, blame, and turmoil. Let us study what makes fools in love STAY in love as I continue in my V-day inspired series on love (a real risk for a conservative to take ;-) Read on –>
I know you may be thinking as you read the title, “Well here we go again….Are we going to have to hear or read about this Christmas dribble again? If that’s what you are thinking I suppose the answer to your question would be …YES! I heard a preacher one time tell of a lady who griped every time he would preach on the subject of the sin of women cutting their hair, and his response to her was quite convincing. Every time she griped at him about it he would respond by saying, “Well sister if you and these others around here would stop cutting your hair I wouldn’t have to preach about it all the time!” Same answer I believe applies to the ridicule directed toward preachers or teachers who openly speak out against the observance of the Christmas holiday. If the brethren would change their practice, we would NOT have to preach and teach on it, but we could focus on other needed subjects. However, once again the season is upon us, and the need is here so here we go looking once again as to what Christian people need to know about religious holiday known as Christmas. Read on –>
This was the last message that the dolphins (the second most intellegent life forms on the planet, with humans coming in third…) in Douglas Adams classic sci-fi book (and one of my all time favs) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, attempted to communicate to mankind. Unfortunately the message was misinterpreted as a very fancy set of backward somersaults (or something along those lines). The dolphins knew of the impending destruction of Earth in order to make way for a new intergalactic hyperspace highway and took off for another planet shortly before the construction crews arrived. What was their final farewell as they left the humans behind to explode? …thanks for all the fish…
To an (outspoken) athiest author like Adams, I’m sure this was pure comedy without a twinge of bittersweetness. However for me to think about such an absurd situation as the Dolphins ascending into space in search of a safehaven… it soon brings to mind a situation of the not-so-absurd variety. Read on –>
It is found nowhere within the sacred scriptures of the Christian faith that any particular Lord’s Day ought to be held in higher esteem than any other. We are told not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together in Hebrews 10:25 and we know that the early churches assembled together on the Lord’s day to partake of the Lord’s supper according to Acts 20:7, “Now on the first [day] of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread…”
We are also instructed as to how we are to remember Jesus death on the cross, it is not with an annual ceremony, but with a weekly observance in shared communion of a simple loaf and a cup filled with the fruit of the vine…. So if this is what is revealed… where did all this Easter stuff come from? Good question.
So, with all the hype surrounding easter and the prolific appearances of all the fuzzy little pagan-inspired mascots of fertility and fancified eggs, I figured I’d show you the dark side of some of these cute little critters, Thursday Thirteen style. What an eye-opener. I knew there was a reason we don’t have Easter baskets in our house, and this just confirms my fears. Enjoy my oddball sense of humor and don’t buy into the ‘holiday’, Jesus wants our service everyday and has set aside a special remembrance, every first day of the week, in the communion that He Himself instituted. Let’s give Him the service and remembrance He has asked for and leave the hype behind. Here’s the rather disturbing photo evidence of furry-creature mishaps at the highest levels –>
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on the planet, with humans coming in third…) in Douglas Adams classic sci-fi book (and one of my all time favs) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, attempted to communicate to mankind. Unfortunately the message was misinterpreted as a very fancy set of backward somersaults (or something along those lines). The dolphins knew of the impending destruction of Earth in order to make way for a new intergalactic hyperspace highway and took off for another planet shortly before the construction crews arrived. What was their final farewell as they left the humans behind to explode? …thanks for all the fish…